China developing 180,000-ton catamaran aircraft carrier

[Zanza]

Aircraft carriers are 20th century weapons anyway.

[grumbler]

Aircraft carriers are 20th century weapons anyway.

True.  So are assault rifles, airplanes, and hand grenades.  All of them, and carriers as well, are also 21st-century weapons.

[Neil]

Aircraft carriers are 20th century weapons anyway.

You need somewhere to launch your drones from.

[Siege]

Aircraft carriers are 20th century weapons anyway.

If we had air bases in every friggin country then we wouldn't need aircraft carriers.
But then you would bitch about American expansionism and imperialism.

[Admiral Yi]

Strange its the China daily, reads more like the kind of thing the right wing American press would come up with to say "MOAR MILITARY MONEYS!"

[dps]

I can see the 'logic' behind this, when the US Navy splits it in two, they can say "ha ha, now we have two aircraft carriers".   

Good point. 

[Siege]

Strange its the China daily, reads more like the kind of thing the right wing American press would come up with to say "MOAR MILITARY MONEYS!"

Don't pay attention to Tyr.
He lives in his own fantasy world.

[Admiral Yi]

Don't pay attention to Tyr.
He lives in his own fantasy world.

I would be interested to know what sources inform his views of America.

[mongers]

Aircraft carriers are 20th century weapons anyway.

True.  So are assault rifles, airplanes, and hand grenades.  All of them, and carriers as well, are also 21st-century weapons.

Grenadiers?

[Neil]

Aircraft carriers are 20th century weapons anyway.

True.  So are assault rifles, airplanes, and hand grenades.  All of them, and carriers as well, are also 21st-century weapons.

Grenadiers?

There were grenadiers in the 20th century.

[Ed Anger]

I saw that deletion Mongers. I SEE ALL.

[Malthus]

Aircraft carriers are 20th century weapons anyway.

True.  So are assault rifles, airplanes, and hand grenades.  All of them, and carriers as well, are also 21st-century weapons.

Grenadiers?

There were grenadiers in the 20th century.

Well, they are also a 18th century weapon. Maybe even earlier. 

[Neil]

Aircraft carriers are 20th century weapons anyway.

True.  So are assault rifles, airplanes, and hand grenades.  All of them, and carriers as well, are also 21st-century weapons.

Grenadiers?

There were grenadiers in the 20th century.

Well, they are also a 18th century weapon. Maybe even earlier. 

Yeah, but the grenade was still a weapon used in the 20th century.  grumbler's whole point was that just because a weapon was used a while back doesn't mean that we should hold it in disdain.

[Ideologue]

I've often felt that restarting B-29 production and deploying them to occupied Araby would quickly put an end to their folly.  It worked for Trenchard.

[Ed Anger]

They'd ram those B-29's and knock themselves out of the sky.